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Sepia photograph of an ornate Gothic town hall with a tall clock tower across an empty cobblestone square.

Hotel de ville, Oudenarde

Cundall & Fleming, 1866

Sepia photograph of the arched stone facade of the Golden Gate in Jerusalem, with carved medallions and weathered masonry.

Palestine. Jérusalem. Porte Dorée

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, negative August 20 1850; print 1852

Sepia photograph of a half-buried sphinx and a tall colossal statue in a sandy desert at the Séboûah temple, Nubia.

Séboûah. Temple - Colosse et Sphinx de la Partie

Félix Teynard, negative about 1851-1852; print about 1853-1854

Cyanotype print of two fern fronds in pale white on deep blue, with handwritten label reading Asplenium striatum, Jamaica.

Asplenium striatum

Anna Atkins, 1853

Sepia head-and-shoulders portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket and bow tie, signed Trusten Polk, 263.

Trusten Polk

James Earle McClees, about 1859

Sepia photograph of an empty 19th-century high street with timber-framed and brick buildings, a street lamp and a horse with

High Street, St. Michael's, Looking East

John Thomas Case, 1857

Sepia photograph of hunting still life with dead ducks and game birds hanging from a branch beside a shotgun and bag.

[Still Life: Dead Game]

Adolphe Braun, about 1880

Sepia photograph of paddle steamers moored at a wooden pier on a river, with a seated man on the bank.

[Supply Steamers, James River]

A. J. Russell, 1865

Monochrome print of an ornate carved corner panel with a central cartouche, acanthus scrolls, and lattice patterning.

Ministère d'État (Salon d'Angle)

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Sepia photograph of a rocky cliff with a cave opening and a small tree in the foreground, Jerusalem, Grotto of Jeremiah.

Jérusalem. Grotte de Jérémie

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, negative 1854; print 1856

Sepia photograph of three seated men in a shaded garden under ivy, one in a military uniform and cap.

Lyghouris [?], Criene [?], Planche

Baron Paul des Granges, 1870s-mid-1880s

Sepia photograph of a rock-cut tomb facade in Jerusalem with a dark entrance and carved details above rubble.

Jérusalem. Tombeau des rois de Juda. Intérieur de la cour

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, negative 1854; print 1856

Sepia photograph of towering giant sequoia trunks in a forest with young conifers and fallen branches on the ground.

Calaveras Big Trees

Carleton Watkins, 1870-1880

Sepia photograph of a ruined colonnade with carved stone columns and capitals, a stone wall behind, and rubble in the foregro

Colonnade occidentale (Philae)

Henry Cammas, negative 1859-1860; print about 1862

Sepia studio portrait of a seated woman with dark hair in a loose light draped dress and drop earring.

Mme. [Ernestine Lefèvre] Nadar

Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon], about 1854-1855

Sepia photographic portrait of a woman in a hat and a man in a white shirt against bare winter branches.

"He thought of the sharp look Mother gave him yesterday" / "They call me cruel hearted, I care not what they say"

Julia Margaret Cameron, 1875

Sepia print of a horse-powered wooden clay mill with two workers bending over heaps of earth in an open field.

The Clay=Mill. [Norfolk.]

Peter Henry Emerson, 1888

Print of craggy Welsh rock formations with layered stone faces and a small seated figure at the base of a boulder.

Rocks in Wales

Paul Pretsch, 1854-1860

Sepia photograph of a stone house with chimneys beside a large tree, mounted on a pink album page labeled Old Ramornie.

Old Ramornie

Capt. Henry King, 1840s-early 1850s

Photograph of five numbered bone specimens with bony growths, femur and tibia, from a medical photographic review plate.

Exostoses multiples et symétriques, fémur, tibia

Arthur de Montmeja, 1871

Sepia photograph of Niagara Falls with people on a rocky bank under trees, mist rising from the cascading water.

Niagara

William Notman, 1867

Sepia-toned bust portrait of a bearded man with a mustache, dark jacket and cravat, against a pale backdrop.

[Portrait of a man]

Jakob Höflinger, about 1853-1860

Sepia engraved portrait of a mustached man in suit and bow tie, with printed name, coat of arms, and handwritten inscription.

P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab). Amiger of the Nook, Oulton Broad

W. Boughton, 1890

Sepia photograph of a dirt road through a grove of tall trees draped in Spanish moss, with two men walking.

Mexico. Grove of Chapultepec, Near of Mexico

Abel Briquet, 1860s-1880s

Sepia photograph of a staged tent scene with draped fabrics, a kneeling woman with a mallet, a reclining man, and a standing

Joel and Sisera

Jean Pierre Bertrand Eugène Pégot-Ogier, 1870s

Sepia photograph of a valley between wooded and grassy hills, with a rocky mountain peak rising on the right under a pale sky

[Landscape View]

Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1873

Sepia studio portrait of two men, one standing with a walking stick beside a post, one seated on a carved chair.

[Portrait of Two men]

Felice Beato, 1858

Sepia photograph of a shallow mountain stream with rocks, pine trees, a log footbridge with two standing men, and a log build

Coldstream, Eastern Slope of Western Summit

Alfred A. Hart, 1862-1869

Blue cyanotype of a wooded bluff above a winding river, with a quarry clearing and small buildings at the cliff base.

Richtman's Quarry at Fountain City, Wisconsin

Henry P. Bosse, 1891

Sepia photograph of uniformed officers standing on a stony, barren plateau under a pale sky.

Officers on the lookout at Cathcarts Hill

Roger Fenton, 1855; published February 29, 1856